The Making of India, 1947-2022
This book captures the people, events, and institutions that have shaped India in its 75 years as an independent country. Each entry is a captivating story with sharp insights, creating a fascinating mosaic of the myriad influences that have made India a liberal democracy.
The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.
The Making of Refugee Memory
The first English-language history of how Asia Minor refugees sustained memories of their “lost homeland” in Greece. This ground-breaking study explores refugee identity through an in-depth case-study of the Thracian Centre and its conduits of memory.
Exploring the qualifications that social actors use to support themselves when engaging in common actions, this inquiry highlights the ways in which these actors communalise certain aspects of their life and produce justifications that give sense to their actions.
The Making of the Modern Artist
This study brings together James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist. Examining the fictional artists Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, it shows how Joyce and Lawrence converge on the character and vision of the modern artist.
The Making of the Modern Greeks
How did the Modern Greeks re-emerge on the historical stage after centuries of obscurity? This book examines the formation of New Hellenism, showing how various social groups differentiated themselves from the Ottoman system to create a distinct economic and cultural space.
The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
This book introduces a new scientific approach to the economy: Socioeconomic Safety Management (SSM). Using risk models and analogies with engineering reliability, it shows how economic efficiency can increase when problems of socioeconomic safety are explored and managed.
This book shows how formal, non-formal, and informal education shape bilingual minds. It examines how societies influence language education, covering foreign language schooling, native bilingualism, and societal stances towards bilingualism.
This volume explores warfare and its political implications from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. With a focus on cultural and social history, it presents an overview of current issues and diverse approaches to the “new” military history.
The Many Facets of Love
We might think philosophers have thoroughly analyzed love, but this is not the case. This book takes a step toward rectifying that neglect, bringing together fifteen philosophical perspectives to explore love’s facets, most with religious concerns.
W. L. Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest-serving and most unusual prime minister. The keeper of famous personal diaries, he inspired some 24 biographies—a study in extreme contrasts. This is a critical collective history of those works.
Raimondi presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories examined are notable for the way they move between various idioms—Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches.
As Los Angeles became multi-national, its novels changed greatly. This volume highlights brilliant fiction from Latino/a, African-American, women, and LGBTQ writers who transformed genres, alongside rediscovered novels that explored 20th century class conflicts.
This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis
The Marawi Siege and Its Aftermath
Despite the liberation of Marawi, the Philippines confronts a virulent terrorist threat. To make sense of the siege and its aftermath, this book brings together counter-terrorism experts to analyze the rise of ISIS, terror financing, and the continuing problem of extremism.
The Marketing of Works
The first book on a new type of marketing: the marketing of works. It describes activities like repair that change an object’s market value without transferring ownership. Distinguishing works from services, it provides marketing theorists with many opportunities for research.
The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes with Thomas Nashe, appears to have become Shakespeare on a linguistic basis. Documenting a sharp learning curve, she presents a case that open-minded readers are likely to find surprisingly convincing.
The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
For those who doubt that the actor from Stratford wrote the works of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe has always been the leading candidate. This book’s research firmly supports the theory that Marlowe, living on after he supposedly died, was the main hand behind the works.
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